The program below contains a timer object definition followed by its start command. Then the program continues executing other statements.
My question is whether TimerFcn will be called exactly after ...

I've always thought kernels to be non-preemptable. That is, the kernel code runs to completion, with scheduling taking place only when returning to userspace. I am now curious about the changes need ...

I want to update the kernel to do some more stuff when switching between tasks and for that i need to find the reason for each switch.
First, i can't find the function where schedule() is called when ...

Now this may seem a bit extreme. I am curious if there would be a way to prevent an application's process from being pre-empted by the Android OS. I have time critical testing in C++ which can varying ...

I wrote a C code programme that creates many threads (pthreads) which do all the same thing. Each of these threads tries to acquire a common mutex (one binary semaphore shared among these threads). ...

I created some processes in user space and tried to visualize its working in kernelshark with the trace recorded using trace-cmd. But processes like the ones shown below are preempting my processes ...